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• A Thousand Threads

  Cherry, Neneh, 1964-

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  'Neneh is cool, Neneh is wise, Neneh is a legend. Her memoir is a treasure. I loved it.' Zadie Smith Published 8 October 2024.

• Misty

  45 Years of Fear : the Essential Collection

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  I was raised on Misty, the classic 80s horror comic, so am stoked to see the library has bought this history of her witchy ways.

• Bloody Minded

  Ferguson, Susie

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  "Early in her radio career Susie Ferguson became a war correspondent. The only woman among hundreds of soldiers, in a helmet and flak jacket she was one of the boys. None of them knew she was taking fifteen painkillers a day and relying on…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Cher

  the Memoir, Part One

  Cher, 1946-

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  "The extraordinary life of Cher can be told by only one person . . . Cher herself. After more than seventy years of fighting to live her life on her own terms, Cher finally reveals her true story in intimate detail, in a two-part memoir."

• Bold Types

  Indie Bookshops of Aotearoa New Zealand

  Coddington, Deborah, 1953-

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  Just in time for NZ Bookshop Day in October.

• The Bright Sword

  a Novel of King Arthur

  Grossman, Lev, 1969-

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  I used to read all the Arthurian books I could get my hands on. I especially loved Arthur Rex by Thomas Berger, and Marion Zimmer Bradley's This Mists of Avalon. and T. H. White's The Once and Future King. But it has been a long time since…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Headshot

  a Novel

  Bullwinkel, Rita

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  This one is getting loads of kudos - longlist for the Booker Prize, one of Barack Obama's summer reading picks. "Frenetic, surprising, and strikingly original, Headshot is a portrait of the desire, envy, perfectionism, madness, and sheer…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Creation Lake

  Kushner, Rachel

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  "Creation Lake is an espionage thriller sealed tight in the soiled plastic wrap of noir. Existential dread and exhaustion are its signature moods; double-crossing, seduction and sudden death its plot devices. Orson Welles fans may find…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Chernobyl Roulette

  a War Story

  Plokhy, Serhii, 1957-

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  "In the past few years, Plokhy has also written an excellent history of Ukraine, a history of Russian nationalism and one on the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster. Clearly no one else was better placed to tell the tale of the 35 days of the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• 1967

  How I Got There and Why I Never Left

  Hithcock Robyn

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  "A bright, obsessive compulsive boy is shipped off to a hothouse academic boarding school just before he reaches his thirteenth birthday; just as Bob Dylan’s Highway 61 Revisited starts to bite, and the Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Girls in the Red House Are Singing

  Slaughter, Tracey

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  One for the best NZ book cover list. "Tracey Slaughter’s powerful new collection of poems begins with the sequence that won the £10,000 Manchester Poetry Prize in 2023, opioid sonatas, which travels the jagged aftermath of a high-speed…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Leave the Girls Behind

  Bublitz, Jacqueline

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  "You can run from your past, but not from the girls left behind. Nineteen years ago, Ruth-Ann Baker's childhood friend was murdered by convicted killer Ethan Oswald. Haunted by what happened, Ruth has long been convinced Oswald had other…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Becoming Tangata Tiriti

  Working With Māori, Honouring the Treaty

  Bell, Avril, 1956-

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  "Becoming Tangata Tiriti" brings together twelve non-Māori voices – dedicated professionals, activists and everyday individuals – who have engaged with te ao Māori and have attempted to bring te Tiriti to life in their work. In stories of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Between the Sheets

  Easy and Inventive Layered Traybakes

  Wordie, Sarah

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  I'm a fan of lasasgne and moussaka and tiramisu and layered foods, so this catches my attention.

• Rebel Rising

  a Memoir

  Wilson, Rebel, 1980-

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  Rebel reads her own story. "This “beautiful, brave book,” (Jenna Bush Hager, the Today show) is the story of Rebel Wilson’s remarkable personal transformation, from a painfully shy child in Australia who literally had to be dragged to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Too Much Too Young

  the 2 Tone Records Story : Rude Boys, Racism and the Soundtrack of a Generation

  Rachel, Daniel

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  "We lived in Britain, a country that had hugely benefited from immigration, but curiously had an innate antipathy to the ideas of multiculturalism and diversity. Daniel Rachel has managed to capture the essence of that contradiction in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• On Gaslighting

  Abramson, Kate

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  "In a crisp new book, On Gaslighting, Kate Abramson sets out to get a clearer view of gaslighting, distinguishing it from related harms such as lying, brainwashing or infantilizing. For her the term’s increasing use in both popular and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• How to Run An Indie Label

  McGee, Alan

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  What with Oasis reforming for concerts, this could be pretty timely. "Blending rock 'n' roll memoir with unconventional business manual, McGee's account of his wild ride as head of Creation Records is steeped in outrageous anecdotes and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Lady Macbeth

  a Novel

  Reid, Ava

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  The cover on it! "Lady Macbeth doesn’t retell Shakespeare so much as slice cleanly through it, revealing what was hidden beneath. I couldn’t look away.”—Alix E. Harrow, New York Times bestselling author of Starling House

• Under a Rock

  Stein, Chris, 1950-

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  Recommended by a friend who shares my love of a music memoir.